 | 1854 - 372 sivua
...Lord Truro (18 Jur. 100), " public policy is that principle of the law which holds, that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good, which may be termed, as it sometimes has been, the policy of the law, or public policy in relation... | |
 | Louis Arthur Goodeve - 1872 - 644 sivua
...would give no assistance to the enforcement of a contract opposed to public policy, and no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good. There being no Indian precedent bearing on the subject, the plaintiff desired a reference under s.... | |
 | John William Smith - 1868 - 594 sivua
...construction. At other times these expressions indicate a principle of law, which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good (i)• If this be understood as the public good, recognised and protected by the most general maxims... | |
 | 1890 - 548 sivua
...the rule of decision, aud shall be considered of full force until repealed by legislative authority." Public policy is that principle of law which holds...citizen can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurions to the public, or against the public good. This principle owes iis existense to the very... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly - 1870 - 884 sivua
...Public policy, in relation to this question, is that principle of the law which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good, which may be termed, as it sometimes has been, the policy of the law, or public policy in relation... | |
 | John Shortt - 1871 - 846 sivua
...opposed to sound or public policy," this is in accordance with the principle of law that " no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to "be injurious to the public or against the public good — which may be termed, as it sometimes has been, the policy of the law, or ' public policy ' in relation... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1918 - 760 sivua
...public policy is that principle of law which holds that no person can lawfully do Opinion I'cr Curiam. that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good, which it may be designated, as it sometimes has been, the policy of the law or public policy in relation... | |
 | 1921 - 496 sivua
...not contrary to ''public policy." which means that principles of the law which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good. — Nashville Ry. & Light Co. v. Lawson, Tenn., 229 SW 741. 21. Corporation* — Cancellation of Stock.... | |
 | 1921 - 510 sivua
...often approved Lord Brogham's definition of public policy as the principle which declares that no one can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public welfare. This principle it has been said, may be termed the policy of the law, or public policy, in... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - 1875 - 538 sivua
...common law that nihil quod est inconveniens est licitum^ or, as Lord Truro stated it, " No subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public good, which may be termed, as it sometimes has been, ' the policy of the law/ " 2 and therefore the... | |
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It is perhaps correct .to say that public policy is that principle of law which holds that no person can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good... 
